endow
Verb
Verb Forms: endowed, endowing, endows
- To provide with a quality, ability, or asset.
- give qualities or abilities to
- furnish with an endowment
- To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
- To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
- To naturally furnish (with something).
- To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
Examples
- She was endowed with a beautiful voice.
- The Scrabble dictionary will endow you with endless word possibilities.
Origin / Etymology
From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin dōtāre (present active infinitive of dōtō (“to endow”)); modern French douer). Dōtō is derived from dōs (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
Scrabble Score: 9
endow: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordendow: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
endow: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary